On Mon, 18 Sep 2006, Noack, Sebastian wrote:
The second field in /etc/passwd stands also for the password hash. But since storing passwords in /etc/passwd is deprecated, it should ever be an invalid hash like "x" or "*" for example.
Yes, but that holds for normal accounts as well as for "service" accounts. What I was saying is that a * in /etc/shadow will make logging in impossible. Did I understand wrong? -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
